Pressure Cooker Lemon Butter Shrimp & Orzo Dinner

Pressure Cooker Lemon Butter Shrimp & Orzo Dinner is an easy and healthy one pot dinner made in your Instant Pot in just 20 minutes!

Pressure Cooker Lemon Butter Shrimp & Orzo Dinner

Where you one of the lucky ones who got a new Instant Pot for Christmas? If so, I’m sure you are looking for creative new ways to use your electric pressure cooker. I recommend starting with easy staples like Hard Boiled Eggs to get acquainted with it, but once you are feeling a little comfortable, the possibilities are endless! From this Pressure Cooker Lemon Butter Shrimp & Orzo Dinner or Pressure Cooker Stuffed Pepper Sausage Soup to Pork Loin, Stuffing & Gravy all made in one pot, it is such a convenient kitchen appliance.

While lots of the Instant Pot Recipes are hearty comfort food, there is no reason you can’t keep things light and healthy as well. With New Years Resolutions to eat healthy, why not put your electric pressure cooker to good use for a quick and simple dinner full of veggies and lean shrimp with this Pressure Cooker Lemon Butter Shrimp & Orzo Dinner?!

This Pressure Cooker Lemon Butter Shrimp & Orzo Dinner is an incredibly easy dump meal made in your Instant Pot. Simply saute some onion and garlic in a little bit of butter in the bottom of the pot. Toss in the frozen vegetables, orzo pasta, frozen shrimp and chicken stock and pop on the lid. Set it for 3 minutes on high pressure and let it do it’s thing. When it is done cooking, release the pressure and remove the shrimp from the pasta and shell them. Add them back to the pasta and top with lemon juice and some fresh parsley. Serve up hot and enjoy!

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This recipe needs more liquid than the 3/4 cups chicken stock to pressurize. My orzo stuck and had to recook after adding more stock and water. Most instant pot recipes need 2 cups of water/thin liquid.

This recipe was perfect and pretty clean eating as the orzo and butter made a thin but creamy sauce! It fed our family of four perfectly. There were no leftovers. I used frozen green beans and followed all of the other ingredients and directions. Yum!

I am sorry to report that this recipe was a huge disappointment. I followed it precisely, even leaving the asparagus and shrimp in the freezer until it was time to add them to the pot. But the time the pot came to pressure and cooked for 3 minutes, the asparagus was mush and the shrimp were overcooked and rubbery. I seem to be limited to no less than three stars, but in my book, this was barely a one-star recipe. 🙁

I’m sorry to say this was my first IP Fail. I agree with previous reviewers who comment on the amount of liquid and who had issues with their IPs not coming to pressure. I had to try cooking this 5 times — five. The pot never came to pressure. I added additional liquid, scraped the bottom of the liner pot…in the end, the orzo had burnt spots and everything was overcooked and gummy. The flavor was good, but I will tweak this and trust my own judgment about proportions (and probably skip the orzo altogether and go straight for risotto). As soon as I deemed dinner “done,” I cleaned out the liner and did a water test: the pot came to pressure exactly as it should and as it always has (and has every since I made this recipe). I have an IP-DUO8, which requires a minimum of 1 cup of thin liquid to reliably come to pressure. Some pots require more than that.

Love this recipe I did it in my Fargo LUX Mult cooker and it came out perfect. My only question is if I wanted to double the recipe up do I cook for 6 mins? I’m new to the this pressure cooker scene that’s why I’m asking.

I think I self sabotaged myself in this recipe. I followed it exactly but like others said it never came to pressure. Then I added more liquid because I thought it needed more liquid to come to pressure. Still didn’t work. Then I added more liquid and realized there was a bunch of rice stuck to the bottom. After I got a really good spatula and scraped the burnt rice off the bottom it finally came to pressure but when time was up I had a lemon orzo rice shrimp soup – which sounds fantastic but it was kind of mushy and yucky. The shrimp was good though so we didn’t go hungry. My advice to everyone who says their pot isn’t coming to pressure is to scrape all the burnt bits off the bottom.